My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval? — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
What I invite people to do is to look at their lives just the way that they have lived them. Not to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Just because we love someone, we begin to notice that love is an experience and we have to do something with it.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
People don't need sudden revelations. They get what they need when they need it, thought by thought by thought. It's a constant thing when… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Your story is your identity, and you’d do almost anything to prove that it’s true. Inquiry into self is the only thing that has… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
